Video Review
The quickest way to give feedback on a video. Press play, and whenever something needs changing, hold Space and say it. Every note is timestamped, and you can box the exact part of the frame you mean.
Send it to a human editor - as a tidy feedback file, or as markers on their DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro timeline - or hand it straight to an AI editing assistant like Claude, which can work through it note by note.
Version 1.0.1 · Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit · No administrator rights needed
Who it's for
Anyone who has to tell someone else what to change in a video. If you're a creator sending notes to your editor, a client signing off a cut, a producer reviewing rushes, or an editor checking your own work before it goes out, Video Review saves you from pausing, scrubbing back, copying down timecodes and typing it all up. You just watch and talk, and it writes it down.
The feedback comes out as a clear, structured file that a human editor can work through note by note. I use it both ways for my Camp With Matt videos.
It's made for AI editing workflows too. If an AI assistant such as Claude is cutting your video, export the feedback and paste it in. Every note gives the exact time and length, what kind of change you want (fix, idea, question or keep), what it's about, and the area of the frame you boxed, along with instructions on how to work through it and report back. The next version comes back with each note marked done, and Video Review shows those replies while you check the new cut. That gives you a proper review loop with an AI editor, round after round.
What it does
Hold Space and talk
The video pauses while you speak and carries on when you let go. Your words are turned into text on your own PC, so nothing is uploaded and it works offline.
Draw on the frame
Drag a box around exactly what you mean, like a title that isn't centred, a logo in the wrong place or a distracting object. The box goes into the feedback, measured on the original frame, so there's no guessing.
Notes that cover a range
Hold Space and press → to stretch a note over a whole section. Drag notes along the timeline, or pull their ends to change the range.
Shots, found for you
The app spots the cuts and shows each shot on the timeline. Click a shot and talk, and the note covers the whole shot. The arrow keys jump from shot to shot.
Clear about what you want
Mark each note as a Fix, an Idea, a Question or a Keep ("don't touch this"). File it under a topic too, such as pacing, colour grading, titles, captions, audio, music or B-roll. You can just say it: "Idea, colour grading: warm this up."
Notes on the whole video
Hold G for general feedback that isn't about one moment, like "the music's a bit loud throughout".
Watch it back
As the video plays, each note lights up when its moment comes round, and any box you drew appears on the picture. Full-screen mode shows your notes over the video.
Round after round
Open the next version and the last round's notes are there to check off. Anything still not right carries over to the new round.
Sending it on
A feedback file anyone can follow
Export gives you one Markdown file with every note, its time and length, its type and topic, any marked area, and simple instructions for whoever makes the changes. It's copied to your clipboard, ready to paste into an email, a chat or Claude.
DaVinci Resolve
Export an EDL file and import it as timeline markers. Fixes, ideas, questions and keeps each get their own marker colour, and ranges become duration markers.
Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro
Export an FCPXML or a Premiere XML file. Each note becomes a marker on the timeline, at the right moment, with the note as its comment.
A spreadsheet
Or export a CSV file, with one row per note (timecode in and out, type, topic and note) for Excel, Google Sheets or a tracking tool.
Installing
- Installer: run
VideoReview-Setup-1.0.1.exe. It installs for your user only and adds a Start menu entry, plus a Review with notes option when you right-click a video. You can uninstall it from Settings › Apps. - Already have it? Run the new installer - it closes Video Review if it's open, keeps your notes and settings, and doesn't download the speech model again.
- Everything it needs is included, so you don't need Python or ffmpeg. During setup it downloads the speech-to-text model (about 480 MB, once), so the first install needs an internet connection. After that it works offline.
- Opens MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI and more. Formats Windows can't play directly are converted automatically.
- To open videos with it when you double-click them, tick Use Video Review as the default app for videos in the installer. Windows then opens its Default apps page, where you click Set default. (Windows only lets you make that choice yourself. You can also do it later in Settings › Apps › Default apps › Video Review.)
- The first time you record a note, allow the microphone when asked.
- The app isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you. Click More info and then Run anyway.
SHA-256 (installer): c35ba1c586c8503d95585527f7562de4030d48a9f1fbdac60f5f2d9213a473a8
Includes FFmpeg (GPL v3, unmodified build from gyan.dev, where the source is available) and the Whisper small speech model (MIT).